Their style, however, was so different from the sensationalism of his own pieces or the sentiment of Chopin, that the public failed to appreciate them, and the pianist dropped them.
Presently, however, the boy became a pupil of Heuschkel, an eminent oboeist, a solidpianist and organist, and a good composer.
While it is true that at least four works are necessary for making a pianist of the modern school, viz.
From this time on there is scarcely a concert pianist in the world who did not spend a few months or longer with Liszt at Weimar.
Here he lost his wife, the brilliantpianist Katharina Kolar.
His fine declamatory style, especially in cantabile phrases, stands as the ideal for every artistic performance--something which no other pianistsince has reached.
This, of its own accord, went on in the most artistic manner, as if the pianisthad nothing at all else to do than to sing it.
The style is freer, and these new combinations are very charming, although they must undoubtedly have been fatal stumbling blocks to the fingers of a pianist trained in Dussek and Hünten.
He made his early appearances as a childpianist under the care of his father, in most parts of Germany and Holland.
Another pianist of considerable importance, a disciple of Mozart, yet with originality of his own, was J.
Liszt explained Chopin's tempo rubato in a very poetical and graphic manner to his pupil the Russian pianist Neilissow:--"Look at these trees!
Gutmann is a pianist with a neat but somewhat cold style of playing; he has what one calls fingers, and uses them with much dexterity.
Notwithstanding Madame Girardin's subsequent remark that Chopin's playing at Madame de Courbonne's was quite an exception, her letter may mislead the reader into the belief that the great pianist was easily induced to sit down at the piano.
For the sake of the composer, if not for his own reputation, the pianistshould repeat it, not once, but many times.
As a pianist Chopin was sorely restricted by lack of physical vigour, which obliged him often to merely suggest, and even to leave not a little wholly unexpressed.
The opinion of one who is so distinguished a pianist and at the same time was so well acquainted with Chopin as Mr. Halle is worth having.
Chopin is an exceptional pianist who ought not to be, and cannot be, compared with anyone.
If, however, human testimony is worth anything, we may take it as proven that there never was a pianist whose playing exercised a charm equal to that of Chopin.
The German pianist told Chopin one day that he played in his mazurkas often 4/4 instead of 3/4 time.
Of all who came in contact with Chopin, however, no one made so much of his opportunities as Lenz: some of his observations on the pianist have already been quoted, those on the man and his surroundings deserve likewise attention.
What struck everyone who had the good fortune to hear Chopin was the fact that he was a pianist sui generis.
Parodying this aphorism one might say, not without a good deal of truth: Tell me what piano you use, and I will tell you what sort of a pianist you are.
He always kept a programme which the pianist had touched, and every time he looked at it he thought: "Each day I must do my best.
At the time of her marriage, she was known as the finest pianist in all Germany.
He had heard much of Clara Wieck's skill as a pianist and wished to know her.
One movement of this symphony was played at a concert, and the pianist was none other than the wonder-child, Clara Wieck.
During five of these, the great pianist stood where he had been left, staring down at the floor, an expression in his eyes compounded of many emotions.
Moreover, Wieniawski the pianist had rented the rooms on the fourth floor; and both he nor Shrâdik could be counted on to maintain a duet scales and exercises during the entire day.
Mrs. Stewart's pianist has not come; she has no music for her class this afternoon.
This is a particularly good one, and my young pianist has the true dancing school heaviness of touch.
My pianist has not come, and I wanted to beg Laura to take pity on me again.
At the age of fourteen young Thalberg went to London in the household of his father, who had been appointed imperial ambassador to England, and the youth was then placed under the instruction of the great pianist Moscheles.
As an extemporaneous player, perhaps no pianist has ever lived who could surpass Moscheles.
Moscheles, a great pianist in an age of great players, gave it up in despair, and confessed that he could not play Chopin's music.
As a pianist Moscheles was distinguished by an incisive, brilliant touch, wonderfully clear, precise phrasing, and close attention to the careful accentuation of every phase of the composer's meaning.
His father, a physician of considerable eminence, was an excellent flutist, and his mother possessed remarkable talent both as a pianist and singer.
Is appointed Court Pianist to the Emperor of Austria.
Franz Liszt as a pianist approaches him more nearly in this respect than any other virtuoso, but the field open to the violinist was far greater and wider than that offered to the great Hungarian pianist.
Among the yearly pleasures to which our pianist looked forward with the greatest interest were the visits of Mendelssohn, between whom and Moscheles there was the most tender friendship.
Among the crowd of listeners who came to hear the great pianist was Charlotte Embden, the daughter of an excellent Hamburg family.
The hold the American pianist had secured on his public did not lessen during the five years of concert-giving which succeeded.
In the year 1834 Thalberg was appointed pianist of the Imperial Chamber to the court of Austria, and accompanied the Emperor Ferdinand to Toplitz, where a convocation of the European sovereigns took place.
This charming idyl in Paganini's life reminds one of the retirement of the pianist Chopin to the island of Majorca in the company of Mme.
He is a pianist and composer, and seems to possess much real taste for his art.
As always of late years, my work on the Symphonie des Psaumes, begun about the New Year, suffered many interruptions by reason of the numerous European concerts in which I took part either as pianist or conductor.
About this time I signed a contract for several years with the great Columbia Gramophone Company, for which I was exclusively to record my work both as pianist and conductor, year by year.
The public was already acquainted with my most frequently performed works, which they had heard in many concerts, but what was a novelty was to see me in the roles of pianist and conductor.
Imagine my joy, therefore, when for the first time I was taken to the theatre where they were giving an opera with which as a pianist I was already familiar.
She was an excellent pianist, or what would correspond to a pianist in our day, and among her teachers on the harpsichord was Haydn himself.
She became well known as a pianist and singer, and among other works produced songs, piano sonatas, violin pieces, and even a concerto for piano, or rather harpsichord.
Her fame as a classical pianist was soon established, and her excellent work in editing the sonatas of Beethoven and Mozart bore added testimony to her musical knowledge.
Marie Wurm, born at Southampton in 1860, is a successful pianist as well as composer.
She pursued her studies at Vienna, where she became an excellent pianist as well as a composer.
Elise Barth was a famous Bohemian pianist of the last century.
She became a pianist of great renown, but won her laurels more in the field of composition.
Adele Lewing is another pianist residing in America who has produced vocal and instrumental pieces.
Pauline Fechner is another renowned Polish pianist who has published many pieces for her instrument.
Her long career as pianist has made her so familiar in that light that few think of her as a composer, but her creative work as well as her ability as a performer must win her respect throughout the musical world.
On her return from this country, she became court pianist to the Queen of Belgium.
Like Beethoven, the Polish pianist never married, but, unlike Beethoven, he was not actuated by the highest of ideals.
Her own début as pianist took place when she was eighteen, and gave a chance for the performance of a few of her compositions.
Her talents as a pianist have won public hearings for her in London, Berlin, Leipsic, and many other cities besides her native Paris.
She made her Boston début as a pianist in 1883, at the age of sixteen, playing a Moscheles concerto and a Chopin rondo.
After studying for some time she made her appearance as a pianist at several concerts organised by her sister and de Beriot in Belgium and Germany.
The German pianist had already made considerable success by the time his father died in 1827, when he himself was but sixteen years old.
The pianist instantly saw through this manoeuvre, and came to his assistance by quietly taking the music from his hand.
The pianist accepted the effusive thanks of the smart young man with the bangs.
No one had been listening to him, but the pianist felt himself rewarded for his fatigues, and raising his blushing face above the piano, he acknowledged his thanks to the company with a triumphant smile.
The pianist added force to this wail of woe by performing a noisy run in octaves.
The pianistsat easily at the piano and began the Moskowski selection that had failed to create the expected furore in the afternoon.
In her championship of Howard’s interests, Mrs. Wopp became an ardent villifier of the pianist and she administered an oral castigation with feminine vigor.
The pianist took a long look at Nell who had been visibly affected by his playing.
A tremendous chord brought the music to a close and the pianist to his feet.
The pianistwalked on the stage as the eyes of Mrs. Wopp and Moses rested on Betty.
The pianist approached the instrument to the plaudits of the crowded house.
Like Chopin, he was primarily a pianist and a composer for the pianoforte.
Here, too, it was impossible to separate Busoni the pianist from Busoni the composer, for the concerto was embellished by cadenzas of singular originality and loveliness.
The difference between such players as these and the more intimate type of pianist is moral rather than physical.
Mr. Rubinstein avoided the error; but it takes a very skilful pianist to do so.
They tempt a pianist at first to play them at top speed; their style of piano-forte-writing suggests the rattling brilliance of the virtuoso.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the first American pianist of international renown, returned to America and began concert touring.
Edouard Remenyi, noted Hungarian violinist, made first American tour, and Richard Hoffman was the first noted pianist to visit Chicago.
Demonstration of the Technical Training Necessary for the Pianist of Our Days.
It was plain the irritated pianist meant to rebuke the tiresome visitor, who had come at an untimely hour.
The mistress of the house, who was very fond of music and a very good pianist herself, valued him because he was a good musician and played duets with her.
In 1921 she married the gifted American composer, Homer Samuels, who for many years had been the pianist upon her tours.
Once I went to hear Busoni, and after the concert, came to me like a revelation, "You can never be such a pianist as he.
Later she went to study with the famous pedagogue, Julius Epstein, at Vienna, who was amazed by the child's prodigious talent as a pianist and as a violinist.
People seem to expect that the young person who desires to become a finepianist or a fine violinist, or a fine composer, should possess certain musical talents.
For a time after her graduation she toured as a pianist and then resolved to become a singer.
At one time she was considered the finest amateur pianist in Melbourne.
Then came a long training in piano and in organ playing, followed by public appearances as a pianist and engagements as an organist and choirmaster in different churches.
If I had continued as a pianist I could never have been more than a mediocrity, and that I could not have tolerated.
Figuratively, I closed the lid of my piano upon my career as a pianist and decided to learn how to sing.
At first it was thought that I would become a professional pianist; and many were good enough to declare that I was the finest amateur pianist in Melbourne.
I could not speak to you before because I had not been introduced--but the pianist is Mr. Mills," remarked this punctilious person.
It affords to ladies who do not go to evening receptions the pleasure of meeting informally, and is also a well-chosen occasion for introducing a new pianist or singer.
I believe one may be intended for an artist prenatally; but whether violinist, 'cellist or pianist is partly a matter of circumstance.
It is not always possible to get together the four players needed for the string quartet, but a pianist is apt to be more readily found.
See that your piano is so placed that the pianist has an unbroken background, of wall, tapestry, a large piece of rare old sills, or a mirror.
And the pianist drew himself up to his full height as he said this, as though he had never lost and possessed all the secrets of chance.
The owners, living in Paris, had finally accepted the situation, considering the pianist an unpaid caretaker for that house, which had come to inspire them with terror.
Novoa said nothing, so that thepianist would stop talking.
The astonishment which caused the pupils of his eyes to dilate, the indignation and envy that this insolent fortune inspired, made it necessary for the pianist to express his feelings in a protest.
The pianist did not show the slightest surprise; as though they had separated only a few minutes before.
The pianist was "the guardian of the tomb" above the Sainte Devote ravine.
But immediately the pianist repented of having done this, seeing the look of wrath which Lubimoff gave him.
Novoa laughed at the naive way in which the pianist related his greatness.
The pianist did not know anything more, and Castro's fate did not arouse his curiosity.
And as the Greek handed over the fifteen thousand francs to the croupier, who acted as a depository for the bank, the pianist bowed modestly.
He drew eight, but the pianistimmediately showed his cards.
Seeing that Lubimoff noticed them, the pianistgave a look of despair.
On that account the pianist arose earlier than he was wont, to surprise the professor during his toilet, considering this the proper time for matters of confidence.
On leaving the Casino, the pianist had gone off to Nice with some English friends of his, who played poker in their landau.
At her side was a pianist with whom Schilsky had given a concert earlier in the week--a shabbily dressed young man, with a world of enthusiasm in his candid blue eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pianist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
